Welcome to Miles's online portfolio

mile5.net is the online portfolio of Miles Davies, a freelance interface designer. I am London based, and specialise in designing and building accessible websites with a focus on good design and usability. I am currently the senior user experience architect for Ioko where I am involved in everything from pitching to requirements engineering, persona development, information architecture to usability testing for clients such as Channel 4 and Universal Music.

Prior to working at Ioko I have worked as a Senior User Experience Designer for Isotrak, Gloabl Beach, and as an Interaction Designer for the Nature Publishing Group where I was part of the 2008 Webby Award winning team for sites across Nature's domain. I received an IMA Outstanding achievement award for my design work on the Nature Reports site. As well as information architecture and usability testing, I was also responsible for design and coding, hand coding html that validate to w3c xhtml strict requirements and have a strong knowledge of accessibility.

In May 2008 I completed a Masters Degree in Human Centered Systems at City University in London. I studied the following topics: Advanced Topics in Human Computer Interaction, evaluation of systems, human-computer interaction design, inclusive design, requirements engineering, research, evaluation and communication skills, systems specification and multimedia. I received a prize for the best dissertation in the computing department for my year. My dissertation was a study of various user testing verbal protocols. I conducted an empirical usability evaluation of two of the Nature Publishing Group’s websites, working with the Morae usability evaluation software and Tobii eye tracking equipment and Clearview software.

Nature Reports Climate Change

Winner of the IMA outstanding acheivement award.